Corn-planter



(No Model.)

D. GOLDEN. Corn Planter.

Patented Aug. 24,1880.

jizz/mimi N. PETERS. PMDTD-UTHOGRAPHER. WASMIMGTON D c UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICEO DOMINIO GOLDEN, OF ANTIGO, WISCONSIN.

CORN-PLANTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No, 231,558, dated August 24, 1880.

Application filed March 15, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, DoMINIc GOLDEN, a citizen of the United States, and residing at Antigo, in the county of New and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in OoInPlanters; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to that class of cornplanters in which the. opening of the furrow, the dropping and covering of the seed, and the marking of the place for the next row are all done automatically by the machine.

It consists in the construction and arrangement of the several parts, by which they act simultaneously, as will be hereinafter fully explained, and pointed out iu the claims.

In t-he drawings, Figure 1 is a plan, and Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section, of a machine constructed according to my invention.

c is the main frame. b b are the wheels, supported on the axle o, which is journaled in the frame a.

On the front bar, a', of the frame a, I place two guides, a2 a2, arranged in line with the openings in the bottoms of the hoppers cl d, and in these guides I form holes a3, through which the shafts of the droppin gslides are put. On top of the bar a', I place a marking-bar, e, which is slotted, so that it slips over the guides a2 and slides laterally thereon for purpose of adjustment to mark on one or the other side of the machine.

In the end of the marking-bar I place the marker e', which is held in its place with capability of easy removal, so that it can be transferred from one end of the said bar to the other. When the machine has been moved across the eld and is reversed to bring it back the bar e is slipped laterally, so as to throw the marker into place on that side of the frame opposite to the planted ground. The bar e may be fastend by any suitable key or device which will prevent its being slipped laterally by the force exerted on the end of the marker.

f f are openers, which are tixed on a rotating shaftf',jonrnaled in the frame c. The openers are arranged in front of the grainboxes, and they may be set to run deeper or shallower by the leverf2, which may be held txed in any desired position by any ofthe ordinary ratchet-bars or other devices commonly employed on planters for holding the operating-levers.

g g are the dropping-slides, arranged to slide into bearings in the bottoms of the grain-boxes d d and receive and drop the requisite amount of seed into the spouts, which convey it into the furrows formed by the openers ff. The slides g g are both, by preference, fixed in thc cross-head bar g', so that they operate simultaneously and drop two hills at the same time. To each side I attach a shaft or stem, g2, which extends directly forward and passes through the opening` a3 in the guides a2. Around the stems g2, I place the coil-spring g3, which bears against the head-bar g and against the guides a2. At the center of the head-bar g', I attach an arm, h, on the end of which is formed ahead-piece, h', which is beveled or made cam-shaped on its upper side, as shown. The arm his attached to the head-bar g', so that it can be adjusted to throw the head h toward or away from the axle c, as may be desired.

k 7c are a series of short arms xed on the axle c, arranged on the same circumferentially and at equal distances apart, as shown. They have their outer ends beveled, and they are arranged so that they will strike the head It of the arm h as the axle c is revolved by the forward movement of the planter.

The arms la are attached with capability of easy removal, so that one or more of them may be removed when it is desired to drop the hills at greater distances apart. The throw or extent of the movement of the slides g is regulated by setting the arm h nearer to or farther away from the axle c. The arm h can be set so that contact between it and the arms 7c will be very slight and the movement of the slides very limited, as will be readily understood.

m m are the coverers. They are connected by suitable curved arms m m' to a rotating shaft, n, which is journaled in the side bars of the frame a, and in rear of the hoppers d d. The

coverers are arranged in the same longitudinal line with the openers f and droppingslides g, so that they will cover tlm grain dropped. the delivery-spouts of the grain-boxes, at a distance equal to the distance between two hills, so that at the moment one hill isdropped they will fall, as hereinafter explained, and cover the previously dropped hill. The arms n1 are attached to the shal't n, so that they may be slipped up and fastened. and thereby reduce the distance between the eoverers and the deli\'e1\spouts, or may he slipped outward and lengthen said distant-e, as may be desired.

o is a eliain, which has its rear end tixed to the rear side ot'the shai't 11, while its' otlmr end is passed under the grainhoxes and t'astened to the head-llarg/Q as shown. \\'hen the arms stl'ilv'es the lmad /l olA arm l the bar g is thrown l'orward, moving the slides y, and a hill of corn is dropped. The forward movelnent ol the hary draws theehain o and turns the shat't n, which lil`ts tlm eoverers nl wlmn the arm l. has eleared tlm end ol` tlm arm l1. The springs y" instantly throw hael\Y tlm bar y', which movement closes tlm slides y and lets the. coverers drop to the ground. The l'or ward movenmnt ot' the machine being continued, the sanm movements ol' tlm several parts takes plaee, and wlmn the eoverers deA scend the second time they cover tlm lirst hill that was dropped, and thus tlm planting may be continued entirelyaeloss the lield.

In the ordinary planters the coverers drag continuouslyin tlm earth; but in my machine the eoverers aet like hoes,eutting into the ground only at tlm moment the grain is to be They are also arranged in rear ot' one ot covered. This makes the draft lighter, and in ground that is a little hard the plunging movenmnt ot' the coverers will throw the dirt over the grain far better than can be possibly done by the ordinary drag-coverers.

l am aware that it is not new to operate the reciprmzating seedslides by means of' a gearwheel attached to the forward axle, actuating a pinion connected to cranks, to which are attached rods that move levers connected with the said slides, nor to cover the seed by means ot' shares attached to arms or levers hinged to the planter-frame and automatically raised by cams or pins lixed on the axle, all ot' which is shown in the patents to W. Y. Henry, November 2, i855, No.2 ,959, and to J. A. U. and A. S. llickman, September 3, 1861, No. 33,197, and l do not elailn such as my invention.

Having thus t'ully described my invention, what l elaim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Iatent, is-

ln a corn-planter, the combination of the slides y, having the shafts g2, springs g3, the head-bar y', adjustable arm IL, chain o, revolving shalt n, eoverers m, having their arms m tixed in the shal't n, guides a?, and axle c, having thc actuating pills or arms k, all arranged to operate substantially as and for the purposes set torth.

ln testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 10th day of March, 1850.

DOMINIO GOLDEN.

\\'itnesses:

lIAnnv W. GILL, FRANK I. WnsCKATH. 

